General Clauses Act, 1897: Section 21-Power to add to amend or vary or rescind any notification-Whether could be invoked to reconstitute the Commission of Inquiry by replacement of substitution of the existing members, though not provided in the scheme of the Act. Pursuant to the direction giv...

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Kiran Bedi & Ors Vs. Committee of Inquiry & ANR [1989] INSC 3 (4 January 1989)

Judgement Date : january/1989, Citation : 1989 Latest Caselaw 3 SC

Headnote :

A Committee consisting of two Judges of the High Court was constituted by Delhi Administration to enquire into certain incidents in January 1988, involving the lawyers and the police sequel to an alleged incident of a lawyer, being apprehended by the students of a College, and banded over to the pol...

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Dr. Baliram Waman Hiray Vs. Justice B. Lentin & Ors [1988] INSC 270 (12 September 1988)

Judgement Date : september/1988, Citation : 1988 Latest Caselaw 267 SC

Headnote :

On February 21, 1986 the State Government of Maharashtra appointed Shri Justice B. Lentin as a one-man Commission of Inquiry to probe into the death of 14 patients in the government run J.J.B. Hospital between 22.1.1986 and 7.2.1986 after they were administered contaminated glycerol, and to fix resp...

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R.L.Gupta & ANR Vs. Union of India & Ors [1988] INSC 75 (16 March 1988)

Judgement Date : march/1988, Citation : 1988 Latest Caselaw 75 SC

Headnote :

This writ petition was originally filed in this Court by two members of the Delhi Higher Judicial Service, namely, Shri R.L. Gupta and Shri S.B. Aggarwal, but as the Court was of the view that the case of Shri S.B. Aggarwal should be considered independently, he was asked to file a separate petition...

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Express Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. & Ors Vs. Union of India & Ors [1985] INSC 223 (7 October 1985)

Judgement Date : october/1985, Citation : 1985 Latest Caselaw 223 SC

Headnote :

The Central Government had in the year 1949 demarcated the press area along the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi. It consisted of plots Nos.. 1 to 10 known as Press Enclave as a commercial complex. These plots were alloted to various newspapers like the Indian Express, Times of India, Patriot,...

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Deena @ Deena Dayal Vs. Union of India & Ors [1983] INSC 129 (23 September 1983)

Judgement Date : september/1983, Citation : 1983 Latest Caselaw 129 SC

Headnote :

The petitioners who had been sentenced to death for the offence of murder were awaiting execution of the sentence. Their plea was that hanging by rope is a cruel and barbarous method of executing of the sentence and s. 354(5) Cr. P.C. which prescribes that method is violative of Art. 21 of the...

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V. C. Shukla Vs. State (Delhi Administration) [1980] INSC 77 (11 April 1980)

Judgement Date : april/1980, Citation : 1980 Latest Caselaw 77 SC

Headnote :

Sri Amrit Nahata PW 1 was a member of Parliament and had produced a film titled "Kissa Kursi Ka" under the banner of Dhwani Prakash. The film according to the prosecution was a grotesque satire containing a scathing criticism of the functioning of the Central Government and was open to ser...

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In Re The Special Courts Bill, 1978 Vs. [1978] INSC 247 (1 December 1978)

Judgement Date : december/1978, Citation : 1978 Latest Caselaw 247 SC

Headnote :

The draft Special Courts Bill 1978 introduced in the Parliament by a private member seeks to create adequate number of courts to be called special courts. The Bill provides that a special court shall take cognizance of or try such cases as are instituted before it or transferred to it in the manner...

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State of Karnataka Vs. Union of India & ANR [1977] INSC 213 (8 November 1977)

Judgement Date : november/1977, Citation : 1977 Latest Caselaw 213 SC

Headnote :

Article 131 of the Constitution of India provides that the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction in any dispute : (a) between the Government of India and one or more States; or (b) between Government of India and any State or States on one side and one or more other States on the other; or...

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Sammbhu Nath Jha Vs. Kedar Prasad Sinha & Ors [1972] INSC 24 (24 January 1972)

Judgement Date : january/1972, Citation : 1972 Latest Caselaw 24 SC

Headnote :

The appellant who was a minister in the State Government of Bihar issued to the press a copy of the notification published in the Bihar Gazette Extraordinary dated March 12, 1968 whereby an inquiry had been instituted, among others, against a former minister of the State Government. According to...

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Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia Vs. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Ors [1958] INSC 30 (28 March 1958)

Judgement Date : march/1958, Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 30 SC

Headnote :

In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by S. 3 of the Commissions of Enquiry Act, 1952, the Central Government by a notification dated December 11, 1956, appointed a Commission of Inquiry to inquire into and report in respect of certain companies mentioned in the Schedule attached to the notifi...

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Brajnandan Sinha Vs. Jyoti Narain [1955] INSC 63 (8 November 1955)

Judgement Date : november/1955, Citation : 1955 Latest Caselaw 63 SC

Headnote :

Held, that a Commissioner appointed under the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850 (XXVII of 1850) is not a court within the meaning of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1952 (XXXII of 1952). Shell Co. of Australia v. Federal Commissioner of Taxation ([1931] A.C. 275), Huddart,Parker & Co. v. Moor...

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